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Governor Jan Brewer has made simplifying the state’s sales
tax system a top priority for this legislative session. She convened a task
force last year to come up with recommendations on how to do that.

We are pleased to begin sharing the conversations from StoryCorps Phoenix, the project that
records the stories from everyday people.
James and Marion Durham (Photo courtesy of StoryCorps)
The StoryCorps Mobile Booth is parked
at the Phoenix Art Museum and has been very busy.

Many believe the Superstition Mountains
are filled with treasures. For more than a century, people — locals and visitors — have ventured into this part of Arizona
looking to find one of the oldest legends: a gold mine.

State Representative John Kavanagh wants to change Arizona's Resign to Run law. He says it's a charade.Kavanagh explains why his bill is needed. Also, Howie Fischer of Capitol Media Services explains why Resign to Run was created and whether it has affected who runs for office and when.

Pea sized hail from a strong early afternoon thunderstorm in the East Valley. (Photo by Carol Harvey - KJZZ)
Pea- and nickel-sized
hail pounded parts of the Valley Friday afternoon. The late-winter storm is also bringing snow to Northern
Arizona.

A national pro-transparency group says the Arizona Legislature is not doing enough to share information with the public.The nonpartisan, nonprofit group Sunlight Foundation has released transparency report cards for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

We are pleased to begin sharing the conversations from StoryCorps Phoenix, the project that
records the stories from everyday people.
Zachary and Claire Robertin (Photo courtesy of StoryCorps)
The StoryCorps Mobile Booth is parked
at the Phoenix Art Museum and has been very busy.

Students at Arizona’s three public universities would pay
three to five percent more in tuition next year, under requests made by the
schools. ASU and UofA are each asking for three percent increases, while
NAU is asking for a five percent hike.

Arizona teenagers looking
for a summer job might have to settle for volunteer work or an unpaid
internship. The state’s job market is
expected to be very tight for young people who want to make some cash during their
school break.

We are pleased to begin sharing the conversations from StoryCorps Phoenix, the project that
records the stories from everyday people.
Sandra Day O'Connor and her son, Scott O'Connor (Photo courtesy of StoryCorps)
The StoryCorps Mobile Booth is parked
at the Phoenix Art Museum and has been very busy.

Author and conservationist William deBuys argued in a recent Los Angeles Times Op-Ed that the future of Phoenix is unsustainable, largely because of the impact of climate change. deBuys and Grady Gammage, attorney and Morrison Institute Senior Research Fellow, debated whether Phoenix has done enough to prepare for a hotter future.

A transgender Arizona man who made headlines for being pregnant as a
man has been denied a divorce from his current wife. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge decided their marriage
can't be legally recognized or dissolved in Arizona.

The Border Patrol is warning of the dangers of
crossing the Arizona desert as temperatures shoot up this month. Spokesman
Brent Cagen says there were 177 deaths in the southern Arizona desert last year
and that border crossers are faced with many hazards.

The town of Marana may develop its own tourism bureau. The
Marana Town Council could not reach an agreement with the Metropolitan Tucson Convention
and Visitors Bureau. Council members voted Tuesday to seek other options to
promote tourism.

Arizona Senator John McCain says the 'Gang of Eight'
is continuing to work on an immigration reform bill. And he told interviewers
on CBS' Face the Nation what he expects will be in it.
“We need to have a path to citizenship and we need to
have secure borders, and we also have to address the issue of 40 percent of the
people who came here illegally, they didn’t cross our borders; they came here
on a visa and overstayed their visa,” McCain said.

Italian-born
architect Paolo Soleri died today at 93. He had a long marriage, raised two
daughters and wrote 22 books, but in Arizona he’ll be most remembered for one
thing, Arcosanti. Soleri began designing the experimental community in 1970, and it’s been in a constant state of construction ever since.

The Arizona Senate has defeated a measure that would have
allowed lottery winners to remain anonymous, but the issue is likely to come back up for another vote.
The bill would require only a winner’s city and county to be
made public.

Efforts to reach a budget agreement at the state
capitol are being complicated by Governor Jan Brewer's proposal to expand
Medicaid, a plan one lawmaker says is paralyzing
the process. Republican Al Melvin of Tucson is accusing Brewer of threatening lawmakers with holding them
in session indefinitely.

The Arizona Senate approved a pair of gun-related
bills Tuesday. One of the bills would ban Arizona police departments from
destroying guns in their possession and require those agencies to sell them
under most circumstances.